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Verbal Aptitude
GATE 2016
Medium
Despite the new medicine's _______________ in treating diabetes, it is not _______________ widely.
- effectiveness --- prescribed
- Bavailability --- used
- Cprescription --- available
- Dacceptance --- proscribed
Explanation
'Despite' signals a contrast between the medicine's positive quality and an unexpected negative outcome: despite being EFFECTIVE, it is not widely PRESCRIBED — a coherent commentary on treatment being underused despite working well. The other option pairs either don't form a sensible contrast or use words ('proscribed' means banned, the opposite of what's implied) that break the sentence's logic.
Source: GATE ME 2016 Set-1 (2016)
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